This Week's Focus is: Advocacy and Your Chamber!
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**Join us for free Open House & Reception with CCEO Advocacy Team- May 17th**
![]() Why we need to Advocate for our Communities, by Michael McDorman President & CEO, Greater Springfield Partnership
I am a BIG believer in the importance of the advocacy work that Chambers of Commerce do on behalf of their business members and respective communities throughout Ohio. That is why I am participating on a committee formed by the CCEO to help foster advocacy efforts for its members located across the state of Ohio through awareness, training, and engagement activities. My community has benefited greatly from the advocacy work we are doing to help implement sound policy and funding strategies and continues to move forward because of our advocacy. Over a decade ago, our Chamber formed a legislative committee to begin to track federal, state, and local issues affecting our businesses, as well as the greater Springfield community.
We developed an agenda and worked on the major issues affecting our city and county. A decade later, we now lead the community’s Priority Development Advocacy Committee which helps identify and fund important public projects via the state’s operating and capital bill process along with funding opportunities at the federal level. Since its inception, the committee has helped raise more than $30 million to help construct an industrial park, STEM school, downtown park, parking garage, and an upgraded interchange leading into the City of Springfield.
![]() FREE OPEN HOUSE AND RECEPTION WITH CCEO ADVOCACY TEAM
Join CCEO for a special reception and open house prior to the Ohio Chamber's State of the Business Summit! Tuesday, May 17th from 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Prior to the Ohio Chamber of Commerce 2022 State of the Business Summit, CCEO's Advocacy Task Force will host a free open house with our CCEO members from the task force to engage and network with and learn more about our efforts and momentum at the Ohio Chamber of Commerce in downtown Columbus!
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